Rayetta's Birds - Myiopsitta monachus (Class Aves)

A learned lady like me always makes the effort. That’s why, when Crumby finally negotiated the release of my copy of the Zuiko 70-300mm, the very copy from the original first shipment from the Land of the Rising Sun that was stolen by pirates, and that copy, my lens, finally arrived at the CB, I headed out to take pictures of monk parakeets. The monk parakeets in these parts stay on a microwave tower. There, on that tower, they live happy productive lives, cheerfully squawking away, high above the frenetic and useless capitalistic hustle and bustle below.

As everyone knows, parakeets are social birds even extending comradery to the similarly inclined starling (Sturnus vulgaris) (not shown). At the microwave tower, the starlings dwell on the top floor, spending their time flycatching from the accommodating perches. Many are aware that starlings spend lots of time flycatching from exposed perches. That is why the other common name for starlings is yellow-billed martins.

Confused? I am attempting here to relate to serious umbdaassesa who may think starlings are yellow-billed martins. Yet martins are different from flycatchers because of the difference in styles of fly catching between the martins, swallows and swifts of nature and flycatchers. Still confused? Well, who cares?

This subtopic is about parrots, or parakeets, same difference. The monk parakeet is an immigrant from South America, possibly from the great Pampas of Argentina. Here is a monk parakeet holding a twig. Holding a twig is smart.

In its natural habitat, the monk parakeet, hangs around monasteries, seeking only to convert those sheep and cows that stray from the monastic fold to a religion that recognizes the natural world, as opposed to the Catholicism of the actual monks, which does not. At the same time, monk parakeets have evolved a symbiotic relationship with all the cows and sheep, not just the strays, eating up what those ungulates don’t want or, sometimes, eating up what they can get to first. Nature is like that, believe it or not.

In these parts, the immigrant monk parakeets live off the fat of the land. For these immigrants, life is a never-ending vacation from all the toil and trouble of their native land. Here, the mission to the ungulates is entirely forgotten.

Crumby wishes to fire them up though. Crumby surmises that these immigrant monk parakeets, if they were trained in civil communication, and knew some theology, could prove a valuable resource for his plan. Crumby’s plan is to persuade everyone, cows and sheep included, to go on a general strike against our precious Mammonite ruling class. Crumby believes a general strike, where nobody goes to work for about a month, might scare the bejesus out of our precious Mammonite ruling class parasites. Then, once those parasites were made aware of the Labor Theory of Value, as clearly explained to them by the monk parakeets, those ruling class parasites would have no choice but to accede to Crumby’s demand for worker control, a four hour day, economic justice, economic equality, and other good stuff.

After all, even parakeets know that productivity is entirely social.